Countries by fertility rate

Name: Countries by fertility rate, 2022
Creator: World Bank
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Somalia had the highest fertility rate of 215 countries in 2022, at 6.26 children per woman. Macao had the lowest, at 0.68 children per woman. The median was 1.98 children per woman and the figure for the World was 2.22 children per woman. Source: the World Bank.

Highest6.26Somalia

Lowest0.68Macao

Median1.98215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2022

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children per woman. Source: World Bank. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2022 children per woman	Change on 2021
1	Somalia	6.26	-0.1
2	Chad	6.22	-0.04
3	Niger	6.14	-0.07
4	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.11	-0.05
5	Central African Republic	6.02	-0.03
6	Mali	5.69	-0.09
7	Angola	5.21	-0.1
8	Burundi	4.98	-0.1
9	Afghanistan	4.93	-0.11
10	Mozambique	4.84	-0.07
11	Mauritania	4.77	-0.08
12	Tanzania	4.67	-0.06
13	Benin	4.63	-0.07
14	Yemen	4.59	-0
15	Nigeria	4.55	-0.08
16	Cameroon	4.4	-0.07
17	Uganda	4.39	-0.12
18	Sudan	4.38	-0.07
19	Côte d’Ivoire	4.35	-0.06
20	Guinea	4.3	-0.1
21	Burkina Faso	4.28	-0.09
22	Togo	4.25	-0.07
23	Republic of the Congo	4.22	-0.07
24	Zambia	4.18	-0.07
25	Equatorial Guinea	4.17	-0.1
26	Ethiopia	4.08	-0.09
27	Gambia	4.08	-0.09
28	Madagascar	4.04	-0.07
29	Liberia	4.02	-0.07
30	South Sudan	3.96	-0.08
31	Comoros	3.94	-0.06
32	Guinea-Bissau	3.91	-0.09
33	Samoa	3.88	-0.06
34	Sierra Leone	3.88	-0.1
35	Senegal	3.86	-0.07
36	Eritrea	3.79	-0.08
37	Rwanda	3.78	-0.06
38	Zimbabwe	3.77	0
39	Malawi	3.72	-0.07
40	Gabon	3.71	-0.06
41	São Tomé and Príncipe	3.7	-0.06
42	Pakistan	3.66	-0.06
43	Vanuatu	3.65	-0.05
44	Solomon Islands	3.62	-0.07
45	Ghana	3.43	-0.06
46	Uzbekistan	3.4	+0.12
47	Nauru	3.38	-0.05
48	Palestine	3.38	-0.07
49	Iraq	3.29	-0.06
50	Kenya	3.26	-0.05
51	Namibia	3.25	-0.05
52	Tuvalu	3.24	-0.03
53	Kiribati	3.18	-0.04
54	Tonga	3.17	-0.03
55	Papua New Guinea	3.17	-0.05
56	Tajikistan	3.13	-0.04
57	Kazakhstan	3.05	-0.27
58	Marshall Islands	2.94	-0.03
59	Israel	2.89	-0.11
60	Guam	2.82	-0.04
61	Algeria	2.82	-0.05
62	Eswatini	2.8	-0.04
62	Timor-Leste	2.8	-0.09
64	Kyrgyzstan	2.8	-0.09
65	Botswana	2.79	-0.04
65	Micronesia	2.79	-0.03
67	Saint Martin	2.76	-0.04
68	Egypt	2.75	0
69	Syria	2.75	-0.05
70	Turkmenistan	2.73	-0.03
71	Lesotho	2.72	-0.05
72	Mongolia	2.7	-0.1
73	Haiti	2.7	-0.05
74	Jordan	2.68	-0.06
75	Djibouti	2.65	-0.05
76	Cambodia	2.62	-0.05
77	Bolivia	2.58	-0.03
78	Honduras	2.52	-0.03
79	Laos	2.46	-0.04
80	Oman	2.45	-0.14
81	Paraguay	2.44	-0.02
82	Guyana	2.44	-0.03
83	Libya	2.4	-0.06
84	Northern Mariana Islands	2.39	-0.05
85	Guatemala	2.34	-0.04
86	American Samoa	2.31	-0.02
86	Fiji	2.31	-0.03
88	Suriname	2.27	-0.02
89	Dominican Republic	2.27	-0.03
90	Lebanon	2.26	-0.02
91	Morocco	2.26	-0.03
92	Nicaragua	2.24	-0.02
93	South Africa	2.23	-0.02
94	Seychelles	2.2	-0.18
95	Bangladesh	2.18	+0.01
96	Indonesia	2.15	-0.02
97	Saudi Arabia	2.14	-0.03
98	Panama	2.14	-0.01
99	Myanmar	2.13	-0.03
100	Monaco	2.11	-0.01
101	Venezuela	2.09	-0.02
102	Faroe Islands	2.08	-0.23
103	Peru	2	-0.02
104	Nepal	2	-0.02
105	U.S. Virgin Islands	2	-0.01
106	New Caledonia	2	-0.01
107	India	1.99	-0.02
108	Sri Lanka	1.98	-0.01
109	Belize	1.95	+0.11
110	Mexico	1.94	-0.03
111	Philippines	1.93	-0.02
112	Palau	1.93	-0.02
112	Vietnam	1.93	-0.01
114	Gibraltar	1.9	-0
115	Ecuador	1.86	-0.05
116	Tunisia	1.85	+0.05
117	Bahrain	1.84	-0.01
118	Georgia	1.82	-0.16
119	Greenland	1.82	-0
120	Montenegro	1.8	+0.05
121	North Korea	1.8	-0.01
122	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1.79	-0.02
123	El Salvador	1.79	-0.02
124	Bulgaria	1.78	-0.02
124	France	1.78	-0.05
126	Brunei	1.76	-0.01
127	Qatar	1.74	+0.13
128	Barbados	1.71	0
129	Romania	1.71	-0.1
130	Iran	1.7	-0.01
131	Armenia	1.7	0
132	Moldova	1.69	-0.06
133	Azerbaijan	1.67	+0.15
133	New Zealand	1.67	+0.02
135	Colombia	1.66	-0.02
136	United States	1.66	-0.01
137	Czechia	1.64	-0.19
138	Australia	1.63	-0.07
138	Türkiye	1.63	-0.08
140	Brazil	1.63	-0.01
141	Aruba	1.62	-0.02
142	North Macedonia	1.6	0
143	Serbia	1.59	+0.07
144	Iceland	1.59	-0.23
145	Maldives	1.58	-0.02
146	Antigua and Barbuda	1.58	0
147	Hungary	1.57	-0.06
147	Slovakia	1.57	-0.06
149	United Kingdom	1.56	-0.02
150	Isle of Man	1.56	-0.01
151	Denmark	1.55	-0.17
151	Malaysia	1.55	-0
151	Slovenia	1.55	-0.09
154	Kuwait	1.55	-0.6
155	Trinidad and Tobago	1.54	-0.01
156	Cayman Islands	1.54	-0.01
157	Cape Verde	1.53	-0.02
158	Belgium	1.53	-0.07
158	Croatia	1.53	-0.09
158	Sweden	1.53	-0.14
161	French Polynesia	1.52	-0.02
162	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.51	-0.02
163	Ireland	1.51	-0.21
164	Grenada	1.5	-0.01
165	Netherlands	1.49	-0.13
166	Argentina	1.48	-0.1
166	Dominica	1.48	-0
168	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.48	-0.01
169	Bhutan	1.48	-0.01
170	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.48	-0.02
171	Latvia	1.47	-0.1
171	Liechtenstein	1.47	-0.06
173	Germany	1.46	-0.13
174	Sint Maarten	1.45	-0
175	Portugal	1.43	+0.08
176	Uruguay	1.43	-0.02
177	Russia	1.42	-0.09
178	Cuba	1.41	-0.02
179	Austria	1.41	-0.07
179	Estonia	1.41	-0.2
179	Norway	1.41	-0.14
182	Curaçao	1.4	0
183	Bermuda	1.4	+0.01
184	Cyprus	1.39	0
185	Switzerland	1.39	-0.13
186	Saint Lucia	1.39	-0.01
187	Bahamas	1.38	-0
188	Jamaica	1.37	-0.01
189	Albania	1.36	-0.01
190	Canada	1.34	-0.1
191	Costa Rica	1.34	-0.02
192	Mauritius	1.33	-0.09
193	Belarus	1.33	-0.04
194	Finland	1.32	-0.14
194	Greece	1.32	-0.11
196	Luxembourg	1.31	-0.07
197	Poland	1.29	-0.04
198	Lithuania	1.27	-0.09
199	Japan	1.26	-0.04
200	Chile	1.26	+0.08
201	Italy	1.24	-0.01
202	Thailand	1.22	-0.01
203	Spain	1.16	-0.02
204	United Arab Emirates	1.15	-0.01
205	San Marino	1.14	+0.01
206	Malta	1.08	-0.05
207	Andorra	1.07	+0.01
208	Singapore	1.04	-0.08
209	China	1.03	-0.08
210	British Virgin Islands	1.03	+0.03
211	Puerto Rico	0.91	+0.01
212	Ukraine	0.9	-0.25
213	South Korea	0.78	-0.03
214	Hong Kong	0.7	-0.07
215	Macao	0.68	-0.08

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About this ranking

Average number of children a woman would have over her lifetime at current age-specific fertility rates.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

World Bank, World Development Indicators. Fertility rate, total, births per woman (SP.DYN.TFRT.IN). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

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Which country has the highest fertility rate?

Somalia, with 6.26 children per woman in 2022, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest fertility rate?

Macao, with 0.68 children per woman in 2022.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Bank, Fertility rate, total, births per woman (SP.DYN.TFRT.IN). Retrieved 2026-10-09.